I'll Speak a Word for Jesus

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I'll speak a word for Jesus, How could I silent be

Author: Lizzie DeArmond
Tune: [I'll speak a word for Jesus] (Geibel)
Published in 3 hymnals

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Audio files: MIDI

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1 I’ll speak a word for Jesus!
How could I silent be,
When all my life, my Savior,
Has done so much for me?

Refrain:
I’ll speak a word for Jesus!
My heart with joy doth sing!
Why should I fear to render
This service for my king?

2 My trembling lips may falter,
Yet gladly I will say
The message Jesus gives me,
To cheer some soul today. [Refrain]

3 I’ll speak a word for Jesus!
His cleansing blood I know,
And I must tell to others
The debt of love I owe. [Refrain]

4 A word! yes, for my Jesus
I’ll speak till life shall end,
That those who do not know Him,
May find the sinner’s friend. [Refrain]

Source: The Cyber Hymnal #10607

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Author: Lizzie DeArmond

Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	I'll speak a word for Jesus, How could I silent be
Title:	I'll Speak a Word for Jesus
Author:	Lizzie DeArmond
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	I'll speak a word for Jesus
Copyright:	Public Domain